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Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text by Derek Pearsall 9780859897846
RRP: £17.59£16.55William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great issues and debates of the day and acts as a commentary... -
After the Formalities by Anthony Anaxagorou
RRP: £9.99£6.99A knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's... -
Translations from the Natural World by Les A. Murray
RRP: £9.95£6.97Not only the migrating birds speak in "Translations from the Natural World". The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of our natural world which find... -
The Unaccompanied by Simon Armitage
RRP: £12.99£8.56'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday TimesAfter more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh collection of poems heralds a return to his... -
Ivor Gurney: Selected Poems by Ivor Gurney 9780192880659
RRP: £9.99£6.99Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) now takes a place among the English poets. His range is wide, including the First World War, in which he served as an infantry private, the passionate celebration of his native Gloucestershire, and fears of the mental imbalance... -
Luminous: Poems & Inquiry for the Soul's Journey by Laura Weaver 9780692146699
RRP: £16.99£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692146699Author Laura WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Laura WeaverPublisher Laura WeaverWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £16.99£14.13Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the... -
The Farewell Glacier by Nick Drake
RRP: £9.95£6.78The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with people from Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was... -
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £6.99£5.13WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798. It is the story of a... -
Don't Mention the Children by Michael Rosen 9780993149023
RRP: £8.95£6.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993149023Author Michael RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
A Beautiful Composition of Broken by R. H. Sin
RRP: £14.99£9.36A Beautiful Composition of Broken is inspired by some of the events expressed artistically by Samantha King in the bestseller Born to Love, Cursed to Feel. It serves as a poetic documentary of the lives of people who have been mistreated, misunderstood,... -
Fairy Poems by Lynne Greenberg
RRP: £12.00£8.44Elves, changelings, leprechauns, pixies, brownies and sprites; England's Queen Mab, France's Melusine, Scandinavian nixies and Scottish selkies: these magical creatures are sometimes mischievous, sometimes dangerous, always enchanting. This collection... -
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
RRP: £9.99£7.11Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God's beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as... -
Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385920Author Anthony BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 197mm... -
John Keats by John Keats 9780571328765
RRP: £12.99£8.56In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Much With Body by Polly Atkin 9781781726457
RRP: £10.99£7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726457Author Polly AtkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
The Gaelic Garden of the Dead by MacGillivray
RRP: £12.00£8.00The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees, ten dream pattern poems and thirty-five death sonnets deconstructed to Mary Queen of Scots. Saturated with the languages of arboreal myth,... -
Selected Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £10.99£7.77Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient... -
Betjeman's England by John Betjeman
RRP: £10.99£7.40For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle beach. Betjeman is England's greatest topologist: whether... -
Birth without Violence by Frederick Leboyer
RRP: £14.99£10.95Birth without Violence revolutionised the way we perceive the process of birth, urging us to consider birth from the infant's point of view. Why must a child emerge from the quiet darkness of the womb into a blaze of blinding light and loud voices? Why... -
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 9780099595540
RRP: £8.99£6.45Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself.(I am large, I contain multitudes.)Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of... -
Pamper Me to Hell & Back: Laureate's Choice 2018 by Hera Lindsay Bird
RRP: £7.50£5.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367841Author Hera Lindsay BirdFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell by James Andrew Taylor 9780199603183
RRP: £28.99£21.72This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most... -
Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania by Jerome Rothenberg 9780520290723
RRP: £30.00£26.35Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the... -
Menander: v. 2 by Menander
RRP: £24.95£23.39The master of New Comedy.Menander (?344/3-292/1 BC) of Athens, the leading playwright of the New Comedy, wrote more than 100 plays. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost. Then, at the... -
Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Skinner Cook 9781449487560
RRP: £9.99£6.41A poet, journalist, and activist, Alicia Cook offers a soundtrack of survival. Structured like an old-school mix-tape, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately is Alicia Cook's lyric message to anyone who has dealt with addiction. "Side A" touches on all aspects... -
A Woman without a Country by Eavan Boland
RRP: £9.95£6.97The poems in Eavan Boland's new collection seek out the delicate intersections between generation, identity, and the deep losses inflicted by history on those who can bear them least. Exploring questions of inheritance (from mother to daughter, from... -
Child Ballad by David Wheatley 9781800173552
RRP: £12.99£8.94A Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation 2023. A Sunday Times Book of the Year. In Child Ballad, David Wheatley's sixth collection, he explores a world transformed by the experience of parenthood. Conducting his children through landscapes of... -
Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho by Basho
RRP: £14.99£11.21This is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Basho. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Basho:... -
Archaeology for the Woman's Soul: Awaken Woman, Unearth Yourself, Worship your Truth by Corina Luna Dea 9780692198636
RRP: £9.67£7.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692198636Author Corina Luna DeaFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Archaeology for the SoulPublisher Archaeology for the SoulWeight(grams)... -
Poems and Letters: Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life by Michelangelo
RRP: £12.99£9.09Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here are primarily devoted to love and religion. Intense... -
How to Fly: (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver 9780571359905
RRP: £10.99£7.32FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORThe poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living... -
Chick by Hannah Lowe
RRP: £10.99£7.40Hannah Lowe's first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that took its... -
Ten Poems About Grandparents by Liz Soar 9781907598470
RRP: £5.95£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598470Author Liz SoarFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher Candlestick Press -
The Result Is What You See Today: Poems about Running by Kim Moore 9781912196814
RRP: £10.00£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196814Author Kim MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
Untitled 7081 by Random House
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593497081Author Kelsea BalleriniFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Art Of Drowning, The by Billy Collins 9780822955672
RRP: £19.50£11.63Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Gerald Stern describes his poetry as "heartbreakingly beautiful." John Updike proclaims his poems... -
Milkweed Smithereens by Bernadette Mayer
RRP: £12.99£10.29Milkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand-new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from her Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early... -
Dear Girl by Aija Mayrock 9781524856175
RRP: £9.99£6.41From a poet and celebrated spoken-word performer comes a debut poetry collection that takes readers on an empowering, lyrical journey exploring truth, silence, wounds, healing, and the resilience we all share.Dear Girl is a journey from girlhood to... -
Halcyon by Gabriele D'Annunzio
RRP: £12.99£8.94Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938), the most influential and controversial Italian poet of the 20th century, published his masterpiece "Halcyon" in 1903. It is a carefully organized sequence of 88 lyrics which, to gain their full effect, must be read as a...